The District’s medical marijuana program is set for another delay.

Citing “changes in personnel and the holiday schedule,” officials at the D.C. Department of Health told applicants for cultivation centers that the process for choosing the lucky winners of the 10 available licenses would have to wait another month.

Potential cultivation center sites — many of which are in Ward 5 — should have been placarded last week and affected ANCs notified, giving them until early January to submit comments on the sites. Under the new schedule, the sites will be placarded on January 4 and applicants chosen by March 2.

Potential dispensary sites will be placarded at the end of January, and the five available licenses will be handed out in late March. Unlike cultivation centers, dispensaries are spread out across town, from the Palisades to Capitol Hill.

It also remains to be seen if Councilmember Harry Thomas, Jr. (D-Ward 5) introduces legislation tomorrow capping the number of cultivation centers in his ward. Though he was expected to do so, his recent run-in with the feds might have changed those plans.

Medical marijuana proponents are concerned that qualifying patients won’t get access to their medicine until July, if not August.